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A day for women and a day for equality

International Women's Day started in the US in 1909 and since then has spread around the world to become widely celebrated.

TotalProfessions welcomes the marking of this day and takes the opportunity to highlight the ongoing gender inequalities in the professions. It's still much harder for women to get ahead in many sectors, and in the UK cuts have meant that a lot of the part time jobs which women do have been axed.

TotalProfessions.com was born out of these discussions when the group wanted to respond to a government report on the issue of (un)fair access to the professions (check out the Unleashing Aspiration report). PARN also developed a diversity toolkit for professional bodies to use when implementing change in their organisation to improve diversity.

So there are efforts being made to create more of gender balance in our professions. Let's take this opportunity to praise these efforts and call for more of the same!